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Why study MA Gender & Development? Meet our students

As IDS releases its report Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash, we asked some of the students currently studying MA Gender & Development about what solidarities mean to them. Our current cohort includes the first woman from her village in Tanzania to pursue higher...

Nicola Davies
Nicola Davies & 4 others

29 November 2024

Student Opinion

Gender backlash: glimpses from my MA Gender and Development classroom

Imagine a group of 26 students from 17 different countries coming together to study MA Gender and Development (GAD). What picture comes to mind? Perhaps a classroom that is a paradox in every sense: chaotic yet compassionate, filled with rage yet brimming with boundless love. A space teeming...

Harshita Kumari, IDS alumni

27 November 2024

Opinion

Six ways to build solidarities for gender justice

Significant progress on gender equality has been made in past decades, but in recent years feminist and queer movements have faced a rising onslaught of violence and repression that targets and seeks to reverse progress on gender equality. Between 2019 and 2022, progress on gender equality...

Deepta Chopra
Deepta Chopra & 3 others

26 November 2024

Opinion

An exploding land market in Zimbabwe’s rural areas

In the period after 2017, the land market across Zimbabwe’s land reform areas has exploded. Continuing on from the periods discussed in the last blog, this post explores what has happened across our study sites and the consequences for the economies of land reform areas in the last seven...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

25 November 2024

Opinion

New entrants in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

The demand for land in Zimbabwe was not resolved by the major land reform in 2000. Far from it. Many people missed out, and new generations too young to benefit from allocations nearly 25 years ago are seeking land for farming. With the urban economy continuing to contract and with limited...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

18 November 2024

Opinion

Supporting African think tanks makes sense – and why more support is needed

Policy making is a messy business. While rationality and certainty are often viewed as desirable traits, the reality is that policy processes in the vast majority of contexts involve multiple actors, and are highly contested, volatile, uncertain, and complex. Policy-making is a political...

Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor

Maria Alejandra Ormeño Oviedo, IDS Student, MA in Governance, Development, and Public Policy

13 November 2024

Opinion

The people’s historian, Pathisa Nyathi, has died

The famed self-trained historian Pathisa Nyathi has died aged 73 as a result of complications with diabetes. He has been described by many as a brilliant historian, a living library, an archive of Zimbabwean history, as well as a beloved father, dedicated mentor and cultural icon. He was at the...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

11 November 2024

Opinion

Israel’s long war against UNRWA

On 28 October 2024, the Israeli parliament voted 92-10 to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the single largest provider of humanitarian aid in occupied Palestine. The ban, if implemented, risks halting the delivery of already woefully insufficient lifesaving...

Stephen Devereux
Stephen Devereux
Philip Proudfoot
Philip Proudfoot

7 November 2024

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